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Haementeria officinalis

Snakes can learn to discriminate profitable from less-manageable prey. Naive garter snakes, Thamnophis melanogaster, attacked both the carrion-eating leech Erpobdellapunctata and the blood-sucking leech Haementeria officinalis even though naive snakes respond less to the odor of H. officinalis. The latter thwarted... [Pg.347]

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